Quotes About Policy

There was a policy at Hughes against drinking at lunch, but the men ignored it

So why are we having to fight in 2012 against politicians who want to end access to birth control? It's like we woke up in a bad episode of 'Mad Men'.

Can any reasonable man be well disposed toward a government which makes war and carnage the only means of supporting itself?

Global warming is real - it is man-made and it is an important problem. But it is not the end of the world.

Any man who, having a child or children he can't support, proceeds to have another should be sterilized at once.

I soon learned that it is always easier for a bureaucrat to say no. They can't get in trouble saying no.

Anyone in politics would like to have great economic numbers.

Driving with one foot on the accelerator and the other on the brake is likely to get you nowhere, but certainly will burn out vital parts of your car. Similarly, cutting taxes on the middle class, but increasing them on the 'rich' is likely to result in an economic burnout.

As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.

It is curious how people's attitude to the existence of a supposedly empirical phenomenon depends so completely on their political outlook. It is as if policy determined facts and not facts policy. If people are against big government they tend to deny that there is any such phenomenon; if they are for big government they tend to regard it as established fact and equate those who deny its existence with Holocaust deniers.

Politics is the science of urgencies.

Conservation and rural-life policies are really two sides of the same policy; and down at bottom this policy rests upon the fundamental law that neither man nor nation can prosper unless, in dealing with the present, thought is steadily taken for the future.

In advocating any measure we must consider not only its justice but its practicability.

The position now taken by the Government is absolutely destructive of legitimate business, because they outline no rule of conduct for business of any magnitude.

The Forest and water problems are perhaps the most vital internal problems of the United States.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

The universities have got a job here as well in making sure that people actually understand that we're open for university students coming into the U.K. There's a job here not just for the government, I think there's a job for the universities as well to make sure that people know that we are open.

Except during outbreaks of vicious bigotry, it is difficult to persuade white America that the alienation of Black America is actual and ongoing, afflicting each generation through policy, custom, quack science, and if nothing else, the Look.

greater attention to the problem area tends to increase negative public attitudes toward the status quo, which can then produce lasting institutional and agenda changes that break up policy monopolies.

This work ahead will require leaders who put the good of the city above all else. The greatest failures of Dinkins and de Blasio were their failures of leadership, not of policy. They let the city go adrift, but worse, they made everyone who lived in it feel adrift.

Cap and trade is not an easy one for refiners, so we tried to get some moderation in the bill, and we did, but not near as much I would like.

Conscription if necessary, but not necessarily conscription.

Immigration is not just compatible with but is a necessary component of economic growth.

A Conservative government is necessary. There is no credible alternative.